Just found out that I live next to Hailz from Neckbeard Deathcamp! Get to know your neighbors! Maybe he'll come over and play my drums!
― BlackIronPrison, Monday, 18 February 2019 16:13 (five years ago) link
There's a new Demon Head album, which is exciting.
http://demonhead.bandcamp.com/album/hellfire-ocean-void
Kinda annoying this trend of up-pricing downloads to $12 or $15 when the CD is $12 on Amazon
― blood, loud screaming and nudity (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 22 February 2019 22:15 (five years ago) link
New Candlemass rules!
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 February 2019 22:38 (five years ago) link
It really does. I love the shit out of Epicus Doomicus Metallicus but have consistently been underwhelmed by their subsequent albums for a very simple reason: the absence of Johan.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 23 February 2019 12:42 (five years ago) link
he sounds a bit different here tho, in a good way. a little more rock 'n rollish
― fuck the NRA (Neanderthal), Saturday, 23 February 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
Omg this Funereal Presence album is absolutely incredible! Some kind of flaneur-punk black metal sounding very much like it's from New York (which it is). https://funerealpresence.bandcamp.com/album/achatius
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 24 February 2019 10:16 (five years ago) link
Achatius was a Roman martyr, and there are some marked medieval overtones throughout, so it is indeed strange to hear these archaic themes subjected to the speed metal treatment. Definitely the most original metal album I've heard this year.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 24 February 2019 10:25 (five years ago) link
A Greek martyr, rather.
Yeah, it's certainly an unusual choice of band name (I've realised just now after reading the Wikipedia entry for Achatius). Also, when I said flaneur-punk, I think I was a bit taken in by the skeleton strolling on the cover and saw it like death taking from the city at leisure. But actually it's more like extreme power walking. Anyway, original is right - what an excellent album.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Sunday, 24 February 2019 10:35 (five years ago) link
This sounds AMAZING
― imago, Sunday, 24 February 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
On the more derivative end of things, this is some really solid Aussie death-doom:
https://horrisonous.bandcamp.com/album/a-culinary-cacophony
― pomenitul, Monday, 25 February 2019 16:47 (five years ago) link
More doom, this time symphonic:
https://osmoseproductions.bandcamp.com/album/high-the-memory
I hear vague echoes of Valentin Silvestrov in their stasis.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
I am at The Armed gig and I have never hated any gig so much in my life. They are playing the best song off the last album and I’m just talking to the bouncers about how gross the crowd is. The band is also gross. I hate The Armed and I retract all of my points. From now on I only like forest prog and people who aren’t sick everywhere.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:08 (five years ago) link
I wouldn't go quite as far as that, but that was a miserable tuneless disappointment and I'm happy to be getting pizza instead
― imago, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:27 (five years ago) link
I've never wanted to leave the gig of a band I've liked that much before, but that was not the deconstructive pop-hardcore party I expected - it was a horrible noise blare over a bar fight
― imago, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 22:29 (five years ago) link
The support band was great though! Rough Hands. Check 'em
I had no idea I needed a black metal cover of Gabriel Fauré's Pavane, yet here we are:
https://sarastus.bandcamp.com/album/enter-the-necropolis
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
I have always been and will always be more of a Wino guy than a Reagers guy, but there's a new self-titled Saint Vitus album coming out in May with Reagers on vocals and it kicks ass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCJz8FdsHo0
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 22:06 (five years ago) link
Wow. Sorry to hear about The Armed show. That was not the experience I had with it. It was lots of hugs, tons of fun and the sound was great to my ears. This was in BK right after Only love came out. The swamp monster kept the crowd pretty much under control. No more crazy than any other hardcore/noise show. I'm sorry it was a bummer. I feel responsible for hyping it up.
― gman59, Thursday, 28 February 2019 10:09 (five years ago) link
Not at all! We would have gone to it anyway and probably I am just not cut out for hardcore shows in general, my previous experience of which probably extended to like seeing Thrice in 2005... I guess I felt cynically about people at the very edge of the crowd being dragged in by band members, but I heard that a guy had an epileptic fit at the end and the band stopped the gig, which is decent.
― alrakis morissette (tangenttangent), Thursday, 28 February 2019 11:20 (five years ago) link
Jesus. Yeah I can see that, it was like an hour of strobe lights. The one I went to was a pretty standard hardcore crowd but the swamp thing was doing magic tricks in the middle and Cara was taking selfies, passing out champagne and on vocals. Which definitely changed things. I found it refreshing and fun but definitely more of a hardcore show vibe than anything else.
― gman59, Thursday, 28 February 2019 20:26 (five years ago) link
Well then:
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/agalloch-members-condemn-john-haughm-pillorian-bandmates-quit-after-anti-semitic-remark/
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 March 2019 10:18 (five years ago) link
Very disappointed.
― like him hate us? Sure you are. Its in the cool aid. (ultros ultros-ghali), Friday, 1 March 2019 12:13 (five years ago) link
Who likes mammoths? Who likes weed? Who likes wizards? Who likes bastards?
― imago, Friday, 1 March 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
I'm only in favor of half of those things in isolation, but combine them? Then great.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
My thoughts exactly. Last three tracks on this thing are monstrous
― imago, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
I know the bar is extrmely low but it's pretty rare to see a metal guy straight up apologize
http://www.brooklynvegan.com/agallochs-john-haughm-apologizes-for-anti-semitic-remark/
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Friday, 1 March 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
True enough.
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 March 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
Contemporary trad metal isn't usually my jam but the Traveler record is awesome:
https://travelermetal.bandcamp.com/album/traveler
― pomenitul, Friday, 1 March 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
more bands should release "play-throughs" like Moon Tooth just did for their recent single
https://youtu.be/NbuNz3Hghkg
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
Decibel Tour totally slayed last night - so good to see Morbid Angel and Cannibal Corpse(with Erik Rutan providing excellent guitar, too) back to back - energetic, face-melting shows from both!
― BlackIronPrison, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 17:05 (five years ago) link
as if summoned by me, there's now another new Moon Tooth song. this one has a full-on alt rock vibe a la...Incubus?
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 19:05 (five years ago) link
I was wondering what Immortal Bird were up to these days, and apparently they've signed with the mighty 20 Buck Spin for a new album out this year.
🔥TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT🔥 -- We've got dates on the way to/from Northwest Terror Fest and some of 'em are with Gadget and Cloud Rat! We haven't been out west since 2016, and we're stoked to return and debut tunes from LP3, out this year via 20 Buck Spin. More info on that soon! See ya on the road!5.24 Denver, CO at Syntax*5.25 CO Springs, CO at Triple Nickel*5.27 Tempe, AZ at Yucca Tap Room*5.28 Los Angeles, CA at Catch One5.29 Sacramento, CA at Blue Lamp5.30 Oakland, CA at Elbo Room JL*5.31 Eugene, OR at Old Nick's6.01 Seattle, WA - Northwest Terror Fest6.02 Portland, OR at High Water Mark6.04 SLC, UT at Kilby Court6.06 STL, MO at Fubar* w/ Gadget & Cloud Rat
5.24 Denver, CO at Syntax*5.25 CO Springs, CO at Triple Nickel*5.27 Tempe, AZ at Yucca Tap Room*5.28 Los Angeles, CA at Catch One5.29 Sacramento, CA at Blue Lamp5.30 Oakland, CA at Elbo Room JL*5.31 Eugene, OR at Old Nick's6.01 Seattle, WA - Northwest Terror Fest6.02 Portland, OR at High Water Mark6.04 SLC, UT at Kilby Court6.06 STL, MO at Fubar
* w/ Gadget & Cloud Rat
― Simon H., Friday, 8 March 2019 19:06 (five years ago) link
Northwest Terror Fest lineup is pretty badass. I'd like to try to get to that.
― alpine static, Friday, 8 March 2019 22:46 (five years ago) link
https://youtu.be/nCR-OrN41E0
Oranssi Pazuzu were already the best rock band on the fucking planet but they might have gotten better
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 18:32 (five years ago) link
(with a bit of help from Dark Buddha Rising)
― imago, Monday, 11 March 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
Whitesnake used to count as metal. I wrote about them for Burning Ambulance today.
― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 12:52 (five years ago) link
speaking of things that may or may not count as metal, the Marissa Nadler / Stephen Brodsky collab album sounds pretty dope if this advance track is anything to go by. stoked to hear what they'll do with GnR's "Estranged"
https://youtu.be/zhUSJMp5y8Y
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
Slide It In was a formative gem for me and I still break it out from time to time.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
Getting unsurprisingly strong Chelsea Wolfe vibes. I'm a sucker for this stuff, so I look forward to the rest.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 17:12 (five years ago) link
I want Nadler, Wolfe and Anna von Hausswolff to team up as the macabre antimirror of Boygenius
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:15 (five years ago) link
lingua ignota, diamanda galas, her out of couch slut
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
Ignota doesn't really seem like the collaborative sort, but I'd be into it
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
literally collaborated with The Body last year!!!
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:27 (five years ago) link
which also reminds me, she's playing london in a few days, might check it out
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
Hmm, that might be worth a 2h (well, 4h in all) coach ride. I don't really know anything about Author & Punisher or RIOTMILOO, though.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:37 (five years ago) link
I literally teared up at the Ignota show I went to. She's incredible live.
― Simon H., Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:38 (five years ago) link
by a few days i mean nearly a month tbf
would be honoured to hang out w/ pomenitul tho so consider it yes!
― PPL+AI=NS (imago), Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:41 (five years ago) link
Likewise, imago. I'll see what I can do!
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:44 (five years ago) link
I actually saw Author & Punisher open for The Body not too long ago. Was cool. Builds his own "instruments". Pretty interesting to watch him use his gear and figure out whats going on. I dig his homegrown mic a lot.
Yeah the Ignota show I saw last year was quite emotional as well. Played in the middle of the crowd.
― gman59, Tuesday, 12 March 2019 18:46 (five years ago) link